"The Secular Trend in the Biological Standard of Living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860," Economic History Review 46 (Feb. 1993): 115-44.

"Toward an Anthropometric History of African-Americans: The Case of the Free Blacks of Antebellum Maryland," in Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff (eds.), Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 52, pp. 297-329.

"The Growth of Boys in the Stuttgart Carlschule, 1771-93," with James Tanner, et al., Annals of Human Biology 19 (1992): 139-152.

"The Standard of Living of Jews in Austria-Hungary: The Anthropometric Evidence, 1860-1920," in Michael K. Silber (ed.), Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760-1945, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1992, pp. 127-134.

Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History, Princeton University Press: 1989.

Received the annual book prize of the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota. Also received the National Book Award from the Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History.